TFPR: Dispersion and Cyclicality

By Russell Cooper and Ozgen Ozturk

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

This paper studies the determinants of the cyclicality of TFPR. The distribution of TFPR is dependent upon exogenous shocks and the endogenous determination of prices. An overlapping generations model studies the factors that shape the TFPR distribution. ...

Rational Misspecification: Framework and Applications

By Ran Eilat and Kfir Eliaz

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

This paper proposes a framework for assessing whether misspecified decision makers would be willing to pay for information that can potentially make them less misspecified. We introduce a prior-free approach, based on “constrained” maximal regret, ...

Patenting Life: Tales from the Front Lines of Intellectual Property and the New Biology by Jorge Goldstein

By Josh Lerner

Journal of Economic Literature

Tariffs and local labor markets

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The impact of the 2002 Bush steel tariffs on jobs in steel-intensive industries.

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Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths

By Jamein P. Cunningham and Rob Gillezeau

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Using an event-study design, we examine whether states' introduction of duty to bargain requirements for police unions led to meaningful changes in civilians killed by law enforcement. We find that the introduction of collective bargaining rights signific...

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State

By Hunt Allcott, Matthew Gentzkow, Benjamin Wittenbrink, Taylor Brown, Juan C. Cisneros, Adriana Crespo-Tenorio, Drew Dimmery, Deen Freelon, Sandra González-Bailón, Andrew M. Guess, Young Mie Kim, David Lazer, Neil Malhotra, Devra Moehler, Sameer Nair-Desai, Brendan Nyhan, Jennifer Pan, Jaime Settle, Emily Thorson, Rebekah Tromble, Carlos Velasco Rivera, Arjun Wilkins, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Annie Franco, Chad Kiewiet de Jonge, Winter Mason, Natalie Jomini Stroud, and Joshua A. Tucker

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

We estimate the effect of social media deactivation on users’ emotional state in two large randomized experiments before the 2020 U.S. election. People who deactivated Facebook for the six weeks before the election reported a 0.060 standard deviation...

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